Martin Wright*

My name is Martin,

independent design

multi-instrumentalist

Human centred design

My passion is designing products and services to solve problems with the people most affected, through understanding, collaboration, and inclusion

Design leadership

I’ve lead teams big and small in all levels of projects across a wide range of sectors. Inspiring teams to do important, impactful work drives me

UX & digital strategy

I specialise in helping teams and organisations use digital to overcome challenges, reach new audiences, and achieve outcomes

Available for contracts from September 2025. Get in touch

Featured projects

Flowchart with three interconnected circles labeled 'Fund Engagement,' 'Access Funding,' and 'Report Funding Progress,' with arrows showing the cycle among them.
a blue, pink, and green shape and the text 'ecosyste.ms'
David Attenborough is standing on stage, speaking at a Climate Assembly UK event, with a large screen behind him displaying the event's logo. Several audience members are seated and taking photos.

Organisations I’ve worked with

Logos of various organisations including UK Ministry of Housing, Dropbox, Médecins Sans Frontières, Google, NHS England, and The King's Fund.
Collection of logos for organisations including National Highways, Recycle, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, University of Oxford, WWF, RNIB, and others.

Blog

Featured
Designing the ecosyste.ms brand

I recently had the pleasure of designing the brand and identity for ecosyste.ms and promised myself I’d keep track as we went so that I could write a blog post about. Here’s me fulfilling that promise to myself…

How I weeknote

I’ve been writing my weeknotes a little while now, and since starting I’ve wanted to codify exactly what weeknoting means to me, what I do it for, in an attempt to draw a little box around it. So here’s an attempt to do that, in a special little blog post all of its own.

Seven lessons from leading a large design team

For three years I was part of an operational leadership team running a large design department, which at its largest was 110 strong, with designers at a wide range of seniority levels. I loved working with so many designers, but it did create some unique challenges.

About

I’m a designer with twenty years’ extensive and celebrated experience designing websites and services for clients including central and local government, healthcare, charity, and the private sector.

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